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The methods used to heat hermit crabs are very similar and make for a great reference if you live in a particularly cold house. Supplemental heating is sometimes useful for getting a little quicker growth too imo and can make some of the painfully slow growing sp a bit easier to get past the...

Could have been dehydrated going into the last molt. Try and make sure they get full opportunity to drink and from there it's just a waiting game.

I kept my mascara and machala mostly dry and made sure they always had water + overflowed the dish in that corner. This resulted in one damp corner and a gradient over to the dry corner. Worked well for many years for me.

Most species I'd plan for some cannibalism, E. bacillifer is probably your best bet if you want a communal. Should be doable in any of those enclosures - provided enough hanging room for molts. I would try and make more clearance behind those cork pieces I see in the back.

I saw a similar pose from a GBB that went to molt and failed to free itself from the old exoskeleton. Ultimately couldn't be saved. In that case it flipped as if to molt and the carapace popped off as it should during a molt.

My friend had fathead minnows breed in their 75 gallon turtle tank by accident. Not sure what precisely contributed but their tank had medium/large rounded gravel and plastic plants as far as decor. Water was kept in the mid 70s and a good population of bladder snails existed in the tank. Wasn't...

This species isn't seasonal in the entirety of its range and can survive quite a bit longer under ideal conditions too, the vast majority die due to the conditions of the dry season well before their biological clock is really meant to stop ticking. Such a brutal survival strategy but it clearly...

I've kept a few larger predaceous diving beetle species before - incredibly easy to keep. I had them in a small tank with floating plants and some driftwood. I tong fed them superworms and crickets, they were very eager eaters.

I think most keepers offer warmed blood inside a sausage casing. They should gorge themselves when fed to my understanding.

I've kept desert beetles with Hadrurus and in a different enclosure have also cohabited them with velvet ants. Species like blue death feigning beetles are too well armored to be of interest to the scorpion and don't bother the ants. That being said I'm pretty sure a scorpion would try eating a...

Hopefully someone more confident will chime in, but you can sex some closely related species by checking the antennae. The males in the genus Asbolus have antennae that are quite hairy on the underside, while females have much less setae hanging from the antennae. In my experience though with...

Have you found there is anything particularly tricky to breeding these guys or just throw them on good substrate and keep fed to get offspring?

I definitely didn't breed stag beetles and tarantulas in my dorm freshman year without issue. But hypothetically if I did, I kept them in opaque totes with locks so no prying eyes could open them - just looked like a bunch of storage bins under my bed.

The most severe bite reports I can recall have been P. ornata actually - but without much research on this I'd treat all Poecilotheria as interchangeable. No two bites will have the same exact results and I'd say the person, location, and amount of venom would matter far more than species.

While inbreeding may cause issues in some species, it also seems to go on pretty safely in many arthropods. The lab I work in has cockroach colonies that were started with less than a dozen individuals that have persisted well over 40 years, and we don't typically see any higher control...

Lots of times spiders just rip up their molts to discard them - not sure they really do much eating of the molt. I always just find the whole molt shredded and tossed in a corner.

Wouldn't be the first time something like this happened as stated above - such as incei gold. I actually produced a single tan/gold Pandinus imperator in my group of that species years ago too. Seems a color mutation expresses as brown/gold is more feasible than something like it being solid...

I have had my fair share of this species, I just kept them fairly dry and dumped water in one corner regularly so the substrate wasn't bone dry throughout. Always had access to water, they would dig a bit and were great eaters. Overall nothing unique as far as care goes.

Looks like the spider is ok, probably hasn't molted in a long while and is due to do so. Maybe it kicked a lot due to stress but I'd guess it just rubbed hairs around its webbing in preparation for molting.

To be fair panther chameleon locale crosses from any good breeder have tracked percentages of each locale - and most breeders breed pure locales primarily. Doubt this really has any impact on the breeding of that species. The concern is always unrecorded crosses of morphotypes or even...